Word: dreading
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...suspicious vessel by cutting it off with a cruiser and leaping aboard or fast-roping down onto its deck from a helicopter. Nothing unexpected took place. But rumors of fugitives and the visibly increased security in Manhattan combined to give the last night of 2002 an underlying dread...
...exactly what kind of name recognition does Mondale carry? While its very mention still sends shivers of dread down the spines of loyal Democrats who remember his dismal showing in the 1984 presidential campaign, Mondale's fellow Minnesotans have had ample time - and opportunity - to disengage such negative connotations. After all, there are plenty of voters in Minnesota who barely remember the '84 campaign, but who know from their parents and grandparents that Mondale, like Wellstone, is a reminder of what the Democratic Party once stood for. And that may be exactly why state party leaders...
...book. In the best pieces, Barry explores wider themes, most often the loss of childhood innocence. The "Dancing" piece, for example, changes when the teenage Lynda learns that she dances like a spaz. "All of sudden dancing got hard," she writes, showing herself caught between the desire for and dread of carefree dancing. Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager. Particularly vivid is Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with a nasty streak. The story titled, "The Aswang," ostensibly about...
...attempt to deal with that loss, as well as with a more generalized sense of aimlessness and anger. "I can't be alone with my head, Hand," says Will, who narrates the book. "There was a time when I wanted and loved time alone with my mind. Now I dread...
This year’s overwhelming dread of fall move-in came in late July. It wasn’t Harvard I feared—who can wait to return to the famed land of red brick and overwork after only a few weeks away? No, it was the actual move-in itself. All those boxes. So much angst built up inside that I exclaimed aloud, “Phew! Thank gosh I don’t ever have to do move-in again after this year...